BIM MODELLING AND DATA COLLECTION
‘Gaps in intelligent data management’ addressed
Nicole Georgiou, AEC Marketing manager at Symetri, explains how the provider of software, consultancy, training, support, and IT and document management solutions, helped the Digital Innovation and Strategic Estates teams at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust ‘kick off their BIM journey’, and improve the data collection process, at Milton Keynes University Hospital.
Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) NHS Foundation Trust is a medium- sized district hospital that provides a full range of acute hospital services, and an increasing number of specialist services, to the growing population of Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas. With around 550 beds, and over 4,000 staff, the hospital sees and treats approximately 400,000 patients every year through its outpatient and emergency services facilities. Over the past 10 years, the Trust has
invested significantly in the Milton Keynes University Hospital site, developing a number of new services and pathways to improve outcomes for patients, as well as the experience they receive while in its care. The hospital was originally built in 1984, and has had to evolve significantly over time to meet the growing needs of the local population, with Milton Keynes one of the UK’s fastest-growing locations. To meet this growing demand, a number of further developments are planned over the coming years as the local population’s health needs grow and evolve. As part of the UK Government’s New Hospital Programme (NHP) – reportedly ‘the biggest hospital building programme in a generation’ – MKUH was granted seed funding to improve its hospital estate. Claire Orchard, the Trust’s Head of Digital Innovation, works alongside the Trust’s Strategic Estates team who will oversee the NHP work at the hospital. The Trust seeks to continuously improve the facilities across the Milton Keynes University Hospital site for both staff and patients, with the NHP team helping to drive the delivery of MKUH’s Estates and Infrastructure Strategy. This aims to support the organisation’s ambition of becoming an outstanding acute hospital.
Gaps in information and ‘intelligent’ data use Claire Orchard and the team started work in 2020, and soon recognised that there were gaps in their ways of working when it came to using data intelligently, as well as implementing a robust Building
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Above: The Cancer Centre at Milton Keynes University Hospital, which was completed and opened in 2019. During the centre’s construction, BIM was not fully utilised.
Left: With around 550 beds, and over 4,000 staff, Milton Keynes University Hospital sees and treats approximately 400,000 patients annually.
Information Modelling (BIM) strategy on estates projects. “The creation of the data needed to effectively manage and maintain our buildings was not something we fully owned or could access quickly and easily,” she explained. The team approached us at Symetri,
an Autodesk Construction Cloud partner which supports companies and other organisations in in the building, infrastructure, and manufacturing sectors to optimise their working methods and increase the quality of their project delivery.
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The solution The Symetri team partnered with Claire Orchard and the Strategic Estates team to ‘kick off’ their BIM journey and improve their data collection process – including via the development of Employer’s Information Requirements (EIR) and Asset Information Requirements (AIR) that best reflected their operational needs. They began by looking at the end- to-end BIM processes and overall strategy for MKUH, working with relevant and impacted departments – from the Trust’s
MKUH’s Claire Orchard: “It was important that we took learnings from the construction of our Cancer Centre to understand where we have gaps and how we can improve our BIM strategy for future projects”
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